Buttercups - Fact or Fiction?

I'd definitely test your soil Hussar. It's possible that if the field was limed and it rained heavily afterwards (needs to rain some but not relentless downpours coupled with an already high water table) the lime might have been leached straight through and out before it had chance to settle in your field and have any effect on the pH value of your soil. A soil test kit will tell you immediately if you need to lime again.

Graze On will work with buttercups but only after repeated doses. I'd do them again in the autumn and then again next spring, before they flower.

Horses are bad for paddock health - being very selective grazers with feet that are designed for hard, rocky, arid land, not nice soft turf and therefore damage delicate grasses. And wherever there becomes a gap in the grass sward evil weeds will grow
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The reason horses are blamed for butercups is that they disturb the roots in winter. They stimulate the root and even if you spray, your field will have more than the farmer next door who doesn't have his cows on all year round.

This is how it was explained to me by the man who did the soil test
 
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I'd definitely test your soil Hussar. It's possible that if the field was limed and it rained heavily afterwards (needs to rain some but not relentless downpours coupled with an already high water table) the lime might have been leached straight through

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It didn't rain for 3 weeks and meantime I had to move the horses to a livery yard ... And it because of a soil test by the farmer that the fields were limed. Sigh. And the horses were off that field all winter.... I blame the lack of sheep - up till 2007 there were sheep on all year round and the pasture was perfect. Since then there's just been cattle and things have changed dramatically.

I'll try the Grazon again.
 
What is the spray for buttercups? We have a heavy load of them on our field and a spray would be great.
 
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